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Çetintürk D, Yiğit N, Castiglia R, Senczuk G, Çolak E. Comparative genetic research on Microtus mystacinus (de Filippi, 1865) distributed in Asia and Europe inferred from mitochondrial (CYTB and COXI) and nuclear (IRBP) gene regions. ANIM BIOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1163/15707563-bja10084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Abstract
The East European vole Microtus mystacinus is the most widespread vole species in Anatolia. It is also frequently seen in watery habitats in a large area of Eurasia. In this paper, an attempt was made to ascertain the level of genetic differentiation between Anatolian (Asian part of Turkey) and Turkish Thracian (European part of Turkey) populations together with additional data from other parts of Asia and Europe by analysing two mitochondrial (cytochrome-b and cytochrome oxidase subunit I) and one nuclear (interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein) gene regions. Acquired Bayesian Inference trees mostly separated the Asian and European populations of M. mystacinus and the fixation index values implied a significant differentiation between these populations for mitochondrial DNA. On the other hand, the median-joining networks did not show diverging populations, significantly, and the mean genetic distance values among populations were found to be low for both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Evolutionary divergence times of Asian and European populations were also calculated and dated back to approximately 0.316–0.111 million years ago, coinciding with the ice ages of the Pleistocene epoch. According to the obtained results, M. mystacinus populations have not diverged enough to form different species; however, there is a separation between Asian and European populations which might result in speciation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Derya Çetintürk
- Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, 06100, Beşevler, Ankara, Turkey
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- Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, 06100, Beşevler, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, La Sapienza University, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, 86100, Campobasso, Italy
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- Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, 06100, Beşevler, Ankara, Turkey
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Sheremetyeva IN, Kartavtseva IV, Emelyanova AA, Lapin AS. The mtDNA Control Region Variability of Microtus rossiaemeridionalis (Rodentia, Arvicolini) from Two Invasive Populations of the Russian Far East. RUSS J GENET+ 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795421110132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Malygin VM, Baskevich MI, Khlyap LA. Invasions of the Common Vole Sibling Species. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s2075111720010087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Thanou E, Paragamian K, Lymberakis P. Social but lonely: Species delimitation of social voles and the evolutionary history of the only
Microtus
species living in Africa. J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Evanthia Thanou
- Department of Biology, Section of Animal Biology University of Patra Patra Greece
- Department of Biology University of Washington Seattle Washington USA
- The Molecular Ecology Backshop Loutraki Greece
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- Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete Irakleio Greece
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